Links
- Recommended Apps
- Sites to Follow
- Newsletters
- Meetups
- Book Recommendations
- Free Design Resources
- Other Link Lists
Recommended Apps
- Sip - the cutest color picker
- Pocket - for bookmarking links
- Evernote - for notes
- Alfred - for quickly opening applications on your computer
- Little Ipsum - Latin text generator
- 1Password - password management ($60 and totally worth it, but there are free alternatives)
Sites to Follow
- A List Apart - THE web design publication
- CSS-Tricks - trips and tricks for writing CSS and other front-end. Very well written tutorials and code snippets
- Smashing Magazine - fantastic magazine with tutorials, viewpoints, you name it!
- Designer News - Hacker News for designers.
- Codrops - Tutorials for fun effects and animations, etc.
- The Pastry Box Project - kind of like self-help articles for/by web designers.
Newsletters
- Sidebar.io - daily email list with excellent design and dev links, it’s awesome
- CSS Weekly - weekly list of CSS and front-end dev resources, articles, and tips
- Smashing Newsletter - monthly a roundup of Smashing Mag. articles and much more!
- Lara’s Newsletter - if you want to! I announce workshops and send out helpful links every now and then.
Meetups
(coming soon)
Book Recommendations
- HTML & CSS - beautiful book and a great guide
- A Book Apart - buy all of them!
- Shay Howe, Learn HTML & CSS - excellent tutorials, also available online.
Free Design Resources
- The Stocks - collection of free stock photo websites
- Subtle Patterns - Lots of pretty and …wait for it… subtle patterns for backgrounds and whatnot.
- Icomoon - icons!
- Unheap - collection of jQuery plugins
- Adobe Kuler - nice color scheme designer
- Design Patterns on CodePen - nice copy/paste bits of code for common elements .
Tutorial Websites and Code Schools
- Shay Howe’s Learn HTML & CSS - also available as a book. I will be assigning lessons from here as we move through the course.
- Codecademy - the Web Fundamentals is a good starting point.
- Lynda.com - video tutorials about everything you could possibly imagine. Use this link for a 10 day free trial.
- Code School - Paths for HTML/CSS and JS among others.
- Treehouse - Similar to the above. Paid after a certain point.
Other Link Lists
- Jessica Hische Resources - she’s so awesome
- webdesign repo - oh my word, so many links!
- Web Design Subreddit